Vancouver Barracks National Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 45.639824, -122.659779
Location: Vancouver, Clark County
Record count: 1,745

Ownership: National Cemetery Administration, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Directions: Located within the north-west corner of the Vancouver VA Medical Center campus, the cemetery is accessed from E 4th Plain Blvd, along the east side of Interstate 5.

Background: Vancouver Barracks was established in 1849 as the first U.S. Army post in the Pacific Northwest. It closed as an active post in 2011. The cemetery contains more than 1,500 occupied gravesites, including U.S. military personnel, civilians, foreign personnel, German and Italian POW's, Native Americans and Unknowns.

Vancouver Barracks Post Cemetery became a VA National Cemetery on March 6, 2020, when it was transferred to NCA by the Department of the Army in fulfillment of Executive Order 13781 and the VA's own Agency Reform plan. It was the fifth cemetery transferred to the NCA by the Army since June 2019.

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 1,745 records
  • Office of Army Cemeteries, by Interment.net, September 17, 2025, (1,609 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (136 records)

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